[travel] Seattleday
Drove to Seattle yesterday afternoon. Traffic was annoying but not apocalyptic. Had a nice Greek dinner with
Posted: 8:38 am Sat August 01 2009 | Comments(0) |
[personal] Saturday unfolds
We’re winding up at my parents’ about 5 for a cancer party with Mom and Dad,
Posted: 10:30 am Sat May 16 2009 | Comments(1) |
[personal] A dinner in New York City
A rather nice dinner in New York City last night, at Tarffalli y Vino just off Union Square. That’s an elegant little wine bar with a nice Italian menu.
I’d ordered some appetizers in advance, including a nice duck confit, a terrific fried chevre, and cheese plates consisting of Sottocenere al Tartuffo, Epoisses, Garroxta, a chevre whose name escapes me now, and Blacksticks, a Lancashire blue with a strong resemblance to Shropshire.
Dinner was very nouveau, with elegantly modest portions, but quite tasty. Some wine flowed — I had a pinot grigio, while
Thank you everyone who made it out for this.
Posted: 6:33 pm Thu April 23 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad heads for New York City
Sally Forth on the dangers of exposition
Cheese of the Season — Great article on sheep and goat milk cheeses. (Thanks to
Dark Roasted Blend with early monorails — Some serious cool here.
Military R.R.: 1865 — Shorpy with a Civil War era railroading photo. Note the very weird depth of field in this image.
Business secrets of the Trappists
Global Warming Predictions — More liberal propaganda from those pinkos at NASA.
Did Pentagon create orbital space plane? — Some cool black project stuff here. (Snurched from Dark Roasted Blend.)
?otD: Did anyone get the number of that jet?
4/21/2009
Body movement: n/a (travel day)
This morning’s weigh-in: 219.2
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville
Posted: 2:19 am Tue April 21 2009 | Comments(0) |
[cheese|photos] Mmm, cheese
Clockwise from upper left: Pierre Robert, Morbier Affine Lait Cru, Chimay Grand Cru, Danish Blue.
Mmm. Morbier was the only new friend here. A nice ripe smelling semisoft cheese, I enjoyed it but it won’t be a favorite like Epoisses, for example.
Posted: 6:50 pm Sun April 05 2009 | Comments(4) |
[food] Lunch and cheese
I failed to mention yesterday the delightful lunch that
We of course went cheese shopping (Shropshire blue and sottocenere al tartuffo), then to an Asian fusion place, then
Very nice to see them both, and, well, mmm…
Posted: 4:09 pm Mon February 23 2009 | Comments(0) |
[personal] A night at the movies, plus cheese
I celebrated my ginormous writing day yesterday with a nice dinner with
We’re off in a bit to the Ballard Market to look at artisanal cheeses, then I’m for home to resume work on The Heart of the Beast. Expect continued light blogging today as a result, but possibly cheese photos later.
Posted: 8:48 am Sun February 08 2009 | Comments(0) |
[personal|writing] Miscellaneous updatery of various sorts
Heading for Omaha next Monday. So expect intermittent blogging next week, of unknown wit and erudition. The Omaha Beach Party had intended a cheese festival while I was in town, but Day Jobbery hath interfered with usual OBP schedule, and so we will be cheesing about in February instead.
In my writing life, I’m back on “Chain of Stars.” December kind of got eaten by three back to back galley edits, and the holidays, so as of right now I’m a month behind on my writing schedule for 2009. I haven’t been laying down much new wordage these past few weeks, focusing instead on reading for Footprints and doing first reader duties for
I need to finish this novella by this weekend, and I’ve promised a short story elsewhere Real Soon Now. I have some other short fiction commitments due over the next few months, several collaborative projects requiring my attention, the preliminary revisions to Tourbillon, then the drafting of Sunspin. Busy much?
Also continuing to contemplate the promised blog post on POV, but the more I think about it, the stupider I feel. Which sentiment will probably be the basic hook for the blog post.
Y’all play nice today.
Posted: 5:27 am Thu January 15 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad celebrates Boxing Day
The year’s Top 10 cheeses — Mmm. (Thanks to
Scientists personalise cancer care by mix and match tumours with different drugs — (Thanks to
China’s Navy to Join Pirate Patrols — He noted that one Chinese special forces soldier could handle several enemies with his bare hands.
Top Ten Myths about Iraq, 2008 — More reality-based interference in the conservative worldview.
?otD: When will I see the sun again?
12/26/08
Body movement: na (guests sleeping in my exercise room, outside too cold and snowy to go walking in)
This morning’s weigh-in: 222.6
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville
Posted: 4:49 am Fri December 26 2008 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad looks forward to some turkey
jeffsoesbe on the OryCon cheese party — Mmm, cheese.
First detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet — Oooooh. What you can learn from the light of a single pixel.
Bad Astronomy blog with some (retroactively) obvious logic about UFOs — Never thought of this angle before, myself.
Pirates protected from EU task force by human rights —
Eight Is Enough — Comment from The New Yorker with more on the Mormon Church and Proposition 8.
The Edge of the American West reminds us of the Iran-Contra scandal — Look! Over there! Whitewater!
?otD: How many tribbles can fit in a Volkswagen?
11/26/08
Body movement: 30 minutes on stationary bike
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a [forgot to weigh]
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville
Posted: 6:44 am Wed November 26 2008 | Comments(2) |